These Skeletons Need an Emotional Support Human (Reader X Multi Undertale AUs)

Ch 1: A Chance Encounter

-Inspired by The Skeletons and the NOT pot dealer by Orphan_account  on AO3

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Sweat dripped down into your eyes, your arms strained and your back protested as you hauled cardboard boxes up seven fucking flights of stairs.

And of course the elevator was out. You groaned internally, setting the last box of who knows what (probably bricks) down in the apartment. The little blond who hired you reached for her crutches.

"Hey, don't worry about getting up." You said, pushing the box over to her chair.

"Thank you and I'm so sorry again. I swear the elevator was working this morning." She said, shaking her head.

"I'm not worried about it." You replied, forcing a smile and pushing your sweaty hair back out of your face.

"I'd have offered to pay more if I knew, but I only pulled out the thirty." The girl said cringing and staring down at the crumpled bills in her hand.

"I agreed to thirty, so that's all I would expect. Enjoy living in Ebbot!" You replied, turning to leave now that the transaction was over with. On your way back down the stairs you pulled out your phone and opened up your odd-job app, marked your current one complete. It looked like the girl had already reviewed you.

Five stars! Fuck yeah. One more review like that and you would unlock higher paying gigs and repeat gigs. Probably still less than minimum wage, but...it was better than nothing, which is what you had been making when you were trying to get a "real" job. You didn't have a car and you had already scraped together enough for rent for the month, so the thirty could go straight into your empty pantry.

You were down to a single egg and a box of kix cereal but no milk. You mentally started making a list; eggs and milk obviously but some noodles wouldn't hurt, a bag of rice could go a long way, if you made Egg fried Rice for breakfast and Spanish rice for dinner. Fresh fruit and veggies were too expensive, but maybe a bag of frozen broccoli stir fry would give you some vitamins. Bread and peanut butter wouldn't hurt. You might even be able to get some ground beef if there was some getting close to its sale by date, the store you went to usually discounted them by a few dollars, so they didn't go bad.

Thinking about that, the first place you went was the grocery store. The discount meat usually went fast and you would have to get there early if you wanted any. Sadly by the time you managed to force your tired legs to walk all the way to the grocery store the discount bin near the meat section was sold out down to a seven dollar pack of beef tips. Which you could have probably mixed with the stir-fry you planned on getting, but that would have been seven dollars out of your budget to experiment on something you might not even like.

So, you left the beef tips where they were and grabbed a small buggy to start your shopping. Bread and peanut butter first, then noodles, frozen and cold stuff for last. You were comparing different boxes of noodles, trying to decide if it was worth the three cents more to get the whole wheat ones for some extra nutrition when someone cleared their throat from behind you.

"Oh, sorry. I'm just standing in the way." You replied, stepping back out of there way for the pers- holy shit that was a tall ass skeleton!?

Monsters were of course nothing new, especially living in Ebbot city, so close to the New Ebbot monster district, but he was just so freaking tall.

"NO NEED TO APOLOGIZE HUMAN, I WAS ACTUALLY MAKING AN ATTEMPT TO ASK FOR SOME ASSISTANCE." He replied, loudly.

"Okay...ummm what kind of help do you need?" You asked cautiously, not because you thought that monsters had a higher chance of being dangerous than any other person, but because strangers approaching you and being overly friendly just raised all your red flags in a city like Ebbot.